commissioner, moore, wu and fong. that motion passes unanimously. >> item 4, commission comments and questions? commissioner. >> i have to talk about situation where the camp was nearly removed. they did provide housing and services to those that were living there and they had a good response and the other important item of this was that there is not an ability to return. so that, i think maybe a way to come up with a policy that may have some benefit for us in the future citywide. no. 2, i was happy to be part of the forum yesterday and was sophie. she was present. and it was a very good hearing. we had a representative from almost every post secondary institution in san francisco. i can only think of one that there may have. it was a good round table and it dealt with the issue of student housing and the new legislation and hopefully a lot of these groups will partner with each other and be able to provide housing for their students and i think it's very encouraging. and thirdly, if i can ask some help, it's coming

a cool name for a designer when you stretch it out, wu. >>> one dress took it from wu who? to woo-hoo. a nice, smooth drive here. no problems throughout the north bay. we had the wrongway driver reported on the peninsula. we are closing this incident. we could do have a car stopped somewhere along the corridor and presumably they have that person. back to you. >>> it is 4:57 right now. a different kind of yosemite. we will tell you about the major changes proposed that could make your trip to the national park quite a bit different the next time around. >>> new details on the youth baseball coach accused of molesting a teenage boy. >>> a warrant is out for the arrest of a bay area baseball coach charged with molesting one teenage boy. good morning. i'm marla tallez live from palo alto with that story coming up. >>> now that the rain is gone, temperatures are going to climb. we have a great-looking weekend. you can actually get on out there and enjoy it with lower pollen levels. changes ahead. we have more rain in the forecast. we will show you when. >>> rain is gone. i can

commissioner wu. >>i wanted to ask more about western soma. you said one of the issues that the board was concerned with the tiers, the trade off between levels of affordability and impact fee. is that correct? >> that's correct. >> so i think i just want to request if you end up preparing some materials if you could send those to us also. i assume it's a chart showing the trade off in the tiers. >> of course we can send that to the commission. >> and you said there is analysis of how it's been working so far in eastern neighborhoods. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> commissioners that places you -- >> the board of appeals and there were two items and the first one is on oakdale avenue. they upheld the permit and they sought to reduce the size of the building but there were concerns from the neighborhoods how they were doing the work and mitigations for air quality issues so there is appeal from the neighborhood on that. the board upheld the permit but they didn't have a condition to do a soil study. there was a rehearing request in the permit a

resnic, powers and ellen wu. she is not here with us and she is a very shy woman. but we accept this recognition on her behalf and she has dedicated 20 years of service for our schools and is instrumental in taking care of the nuts and bolts of the day-to-day work related to the pieces that make our library function, smoothly. rochele and michelle have spearheaded the great work that we have been able to do with our school libraries they have provided meaningful professional development opportunities, and direct sight support to 70 teacher lie brae ans through 103 schools in our district. they have led them in the roles as teachers, library program managers, information specialists, site leaders and industrial partners. they are highly esteemed by the teacher librarians and also by the cross-departmental peers with whom they willingly share their expertise. they are very deserving of this recognition, for providing excellent leadership, guidance and support, to teacher librarians and creating collaboration as we advance the literacy efforts in our district. [ appla

>> aye. >> commissioner wu? >> no. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners, that motion passes 5 to 2 with commissioners moore and wu voting against. >> commissioner hillis, do you still have a question? >> no. i mean, i just wanted to comment. i think what's not clear, i think what's troublesome is we actually don't have answers what the process is now, you know, what we currently -- the process that we're under, that we've been under for the last 10 years, we can't have people answer when the c-e-q-a process ends. so, i think this goes a long way in clarifying that and i appreciate it. >> commissioners, that will place you under item 15, for case no. 2012.0325c for 344 fulton street, request for conditional use authorization. ~ at 344 for the benefit of the public, items 13 a and b have already been heard and taken out of order. >> good evening, president fong and members of the commission, my name is kevin guy with planning staff. the request before you today is for conditional use authorization to allow development on a

now the jury will decide if jing wu was insane when he committed the murders.reportedly begged to get his job back before murdering three of his supervisors at the santa clara semi-conductor firm. wu was convicted of special circumstances which means that he could get the death penalty or a life sentence>> a bay area family with a five year old boy with autism is filing a civil lawsuit against a special education teacher. alexia bogdis worked at roosevelt elementary school in redwood city. she was arrested last year on allegations she was abusing her students. that included slapping a student, twisting a student's wrist and kicking the back of a chair. hitting a student. now thoe charges have been evidence. the district attorney says the teachers aides who originally accused bogdis of bad behaviour. have "backed off their original statements", forcing the d-a to drop charges. >> thieves are taking crime a step further in the bernal heights neighborhood of san francisco. in the last few weeks, they've started breaking into cars so they can eventually get access

now the jury is transitioning into the second phase of the trial where they will decide if jing wu was insane when he committed the murders. wu reportedly begged for his job back before murdering three of his supervisors at his santa clara semi- conductor firm. he was convicted of special circumstances which means that he could get the death penalty or a life sentence without parole. tomorrow, some clouds. we will see some warmer conditions. the details on how warm it is going to get in the next seven days. >> haven wildlife sancuary say they will re-open on sunday. this comes just four days after volunteer dianna hansen was killed when a 550-pound lion escaped from an enclosure and broker her neck with one swipe of his paw. investigators believe that the five-year-old male lion lifted the door of his partially closed feeding cage with its paw. founder dale anderson says there is no evidence that hansen's death was due to her own carelessness. the founder also says that their attention should now turn to the remaining animals at the sanctuary. hansen's family is relieved to hear that s

but his attorney claims wu was insane.nsane when he committed the murders. >>> the driver accused of killing a 17-year-old high school student last weekend pleaded not guilty today. 28-year-old karen brewer was charged with vehicle manslaughter and driving under the influence. lowell high jr. was hit saturday night as she hit san francisco's sloped boulevard. prosecutors say it was her 17th birthday. brewer remains in custody in lieu of $300,000 bail. he's set to return to court on january 2nd. >>> a new safety hub is open. city leaders held a ribbon cutting celebration today. it's different than a police station. and officers say you shouldn't go there looking for emergency help but there will be an increased police presence until 10:30 at night. >> i see everything that goes on and it's very frustrating. when i try to relate that to the police, one thing led to another. i thought they didn't care but here they are. >> reporter: the safety hub will also host office hours for a prosecutors and offer homeless and probation

it took place hours after wu had been fired. wu's attorney says his client experienced a psychotic flashback due to abuse he suffered from communism in had his native china. prosecutors argued it was an act of revenge. now the same jury that convicted him must decide whether he was too mentally ill to be held legally responsible. if he's found insane, wu will be sent to a state mental hospital. if not, he'll be sentenced to life in prison without parole. >>> not guilty, that's the plea from the san jose man accused of trying to bomb an oakland bank as part of a plot. matthew faces federal charges for allegedly trying to bomb a bank of america branch in oakland last month. police say they arrested him just after he tried to detonate the bomb. a bomb he did not realize was fake. it was created under the supervision of an undercover fbi age agent. if convicted, he faces life in prison. >>> a new proposal was introduced today. mark leno draft add bill that would require both san francisco and san mateo counties to pass a resolution

. >> commissioner wu. >> thank you. i want to echo the thoughts of commissioner borden. there are no doubts there are environmental concerns in the bay view and health concerns but we haven't seen evidence today that the site is contaminated. we have the report from july 2012, the professional services industry reports from june 2012 and list of toxic sites by the urban strategy council which doesn't include this site and i think it's important to have the services in the neighborhood. i think it's important for people to walk or take a bus trip to service. for the people that work at the health center to know the community gets to that site so we share the same experience and for those reasons i am supportive of the clinic at this location. >> commissioner antonini. >> i am too are in support of the clinic and in reading over the materials and listening to the commentary it's well established that flooding is not documented there and the gas station was there and it was determined to be clean and there are site for market rate housing and just because a gas station was

now, the jury has to decide whether wu was criminally insane when he committed the murders. >> child cruelty charges have been dropped against a redwood city special education teacher. alexia was arrested in february of last year for allegedly hitting and withholding food from two autistic four-year- olds. the district attorney says the aids changed their statements and the charges will not hold up in court. >> and republicker, mc hammer is tweeting charges have been dropped. the 50-year-old entertainer was stopped february 23, accused of ab of -- obstructing an officer. hammer called his arrest, quote, racial profiling. >>> california man has gone from unemployed to a multimillionaire after winning the california lottery. as cbs reporter shows us, he bought the winning ticket in walnut creek. >> some serious regulations. >> they smiled for the cameras as they were introduced as california's newest multimillionaires. super lotto jackpot. >> i can see who now want to be. >> they needed the luck. >> i was looking for a job because i lost my job recently. >> he was layed off several mon

. >> commissioner wu? >> thanks. >> i have a couple of different thoughts, hopefully i can string them together. so the first which is not our jurisdiction, are the jobs going to the people that are living in the city, maybe that is for another day. so i am going back to the report and the regional growth projections and thinking about waiting or partially, we intensifying the existing financial district, the core, the traditional core, swre buildings that are coming to the end of the life cycle. we have a large number of historically buildings which could take care of tax advantages but those are large, office buildings, square footages in order for them to stay on-line and be viable, something has to happen. from my perspective, there are at least, ten or 15 out dated high-rise buildings in the cod, and the new developers and i hope that they are not offended by what i am saying, but those things are coming to the end of their life cycle. and they are dated building, there are floor plates and two elevat

aye, commissioner wu? aye. this motion passes unanimously. next item is no. 10. an ordinance that would amend >> as you see the corner in general has a lot of liquor licenses. that's why our office worked with the lower polk association and worked with the knob hill residents to work how to deal with the quality of life issues created by the liquor proliferation of polk street. we crafted this lower polk street rud, using other models, our legislation would prohibit new bars and liquor stores in the rud region. would also prohibit, continue to prohibit tobacco shops. new restaurants coming in, seeking 47 permits would be allowed. but not to be open past midnight. and entertainment would be permitted through continual use. i want to stress that we create flexibility to transfer their liquor licenses. that we thought would be an important component of protecting the businesses in the corner. this is in some other ruds and sud's but not all of them. and thought it was important to include. since we entered the legislation in october, we met way lot of stakeholders i

prosecutors argued that wu killed the three executives because he was angry over being fired. >>> theayor says a deal has been reached to keep the sacramento kings in the capital city. the mayor tweeted "it's a great day in sacramento" as he announced a public private partnership to build a new arena. bay area multimillionaire mark mastroff who will contribute $190 million to build the facility. the city has pledged $258 million. the deal would keep the kings in sacramento for 35 years. the city council and the nba need to approve the plan. the kings' owners have agreed on a deal that would send the team to seattle. >>> our continuing coverage on the federal budget and the senate barely passed its first budget today in four years. >> the $3.7 trillion budget passed this morning by one vote, almost complete aalong party lines. the budget contains about a trillion in tax hikes over the next 10 years and trims $875 billion in spending. but it slashes much less than the budget passed by the house. the next fiscal battle is anticipated in july when president obama will likely ask congress

commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and places you under public comment. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment this evening? if not, commissioner moore, you had -- >> the dr applicant was trying to add a comment when i talked about the rear cottage. they had an agreement [speaker not understood]. perhaps that could be communicated to mr. smith so that it is indeed properly put to record. >> okay. >> thank you. >> seeing no public comment, the meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] >> what if you could make a memorial that is more about information and you are never fixed and it can go wherever it wants to go? everyone who has donated to it could use it, host it, share it. >> for quite a great deal of team she was hired in 2005, she struggled with finding the correct and appropriate visual expression. >> it was a bench at one point. it was a darkened room at another point. but the theme always was a theme of how do we call people's attention to the issue of speci species

commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and places you under public comment. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment this evening? if not, commissioner moore, you had -- >> the dr applicant was trying to add a comment when i talked about the rear cottage. they had an agreement [speaker not understood]. perhaps that could be communicated to mr. smith so that it is indeed properly put to record. >> okay. >> thank you. >> seeing no public comment, the meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] >> bonnie banks. bonnie banks. my definition of noise is uncontrolled music. without format. pretty simple affair. pancakes, and you're -- people get up on sundays around noon, weekends or whatever. should not be too hard to walk into place. have your audio alarm clock go off for two hours waking your up while you are eating breakfast with many interesting visuals once in a while. improvisation. listening or not to the person you're playing up against or people or machines. trying to get as ma

as for the commission wu's question, we put our heads together and thought the best way to answer is in this table is in the staff report. the question being how are we doing with our backlog and keeping up with it on the funding with the backlog items. the number on these tables are low and that's because we carved out some of the data so that we were making an apples, to apples comparison. also 2013 not included. but as you can see the answer is no, we are not keeping up. and really that's the function of a cost that we add to the model every year to account for inflation. in the last year it was percent. it covers that cost escalation. it varies year to year based on market and applies across the city, but that's really the short answer. is that -- i provide more detail and answer questions on the plan itself. >> thank you. is there any public comment? commissioners, necessity questions? >> motion? so moved. second. >> thanks very much. >> all in favor? aye. >> item 11 b request authorization to enter into four year contract for san francisco for the ports youth program for the to

but his attorney claims wu was insane.ly insane when he committed the murders. >>> the driver accused of killing a 17-year-old high school student last weekend pleaded not guilty today. 28-year-old karen brewer was charged with vehicle manslaughter and driving under the influence. lowell high jr. was hit saturday night as she hit san francisco's sloped boulevard. prosecutors say it was her 17th birthday. brewer remains in custody in lieu of $300,000 bail. he's set to return to court on january 2nd. >>> a new safety hub is open. city leaders held a ribbon cutting celebration today. it's different than a police station. and officers say you shouldn't go there looking for emergency help but there will be an increased police presence until 10:30 at night. >> i see everything that goes on and it's very frustrating. when i try to relate that to the police, one thing led to another. i thought they didn't care but here they are. >> reporter: the safety hub will also host office hours for a prosecutors and offer homeless and probat

. >> commissioner wu. >> yes, i am supportive of the motion as it stands. this idea of the buffere bufferk that the department is to prevent the situation where we have an out-right ban and has to come back in five or 10 years. maybe a sunset could be okay, it could be explored. but if you have an out-right ban and a liquor license. it's worth so much. immediately you making that because of transferability. i don't want to give that to the current operators who many of them seem like they are not really behaving appropriately. i do support the ban within 100 feet and the fee. >> commissioner. >> the representatives and represents of supervisor chiu, a three-year sunset and after the three years it has to come back to the planning commission whether reinstated or lifted. >> i think if you do that, you ask for a report or something. >> there would have to be a report. >> there would have to be something tangible to decide. >> the neighbors will react to that. >> right, but i think it would be useful to identify the blocks or lots or the bad actors; right. let

commissioner wu? >> aye. >> and commission president fong? >> aye. >> so moved, commissioners. that motion passes unanimously 6 to 0 and places you under public comment. i have no speaker cards. >> is there any public comment this evening? if not, commissioner moore, you had -- >> the dr applicant was trying to add a comment when i talked about the rear cottage. they had an agreement [speaker not understood]. perhaps that could be communicated to mr. smith so that it is indeed properly put to record. >> okay. >> thank you. >> seeing no public comment, the meeting is adjourned. [adjourned] >> if you haven't had a chance to see the stadium and the wonderful progress so far. it's absolutely breathtaking. also as a great symbol of hope on the regionalism that we all hope that we can be engaged for event for the future. today we talk about solidarity around the super bowl. there is no greater place to have it here than in this valley. we have the very best weather and we have the very best people and company's to support the event. i know that anyone that comes to santa clara will b

the jurily will now be asked to determine if wu was criminally insane at the time of the shooting. >>> a man who lives at 23rd and deharo street says he woke up just after midnight to find two men in his home. he says they held him at gunpoint. he asked us not to show his face. >> the first guy took me into the bathroom and had me in the tub with a gun in my head. he hold me there while his friend ransacked the house. >> reporter: the men stole two computers, an iphone and i pa police tracked those items to oakland where they recovered some of the electronics. >>> google is close to a $7 million settlement with more than 30 states. it's over allegation that is the mountain view company collected pass words and other data from unsecure wireless network. it's street view mapping had collected the data from 2007 to 2010. today the company released a statement saying it quickly delightened up its systems to address their issues. >>> check this out, hundreds of people are lined up for a chance to meet collin kaepernick. we want to show you live pictures from the safeway. the line has been

. >> commissioner wu. >> well, is there a world in which we can -- [laughter] >> where we can say it doesn't trigger mandatory dr, we are we can circumvent the fact -- >> yes, we can just make a finding. >> well, i think [speaker not understood], i'm not sure. without scott here, i'm not sure. what i would suggest maybe it sounds like you're supportive of the project if the kitchen is in the front. >> yes. >>> so, maybe make a finding that you would prefer that solution and ask staff to -- and ask the za to look for a solution that allows that to happen. ~ because the way the current situation -- we have been advised on the current situation the removal of the kitchen in the rear unit constitutes a demolition and therefore a mandatory dr which means coming back to you for another dr. so, obviously everyone wants to avoid that. so, if there is -- so, maybe you could take dr, ask that the kitchen be moved to the front and ask us to figure out a solution to make that happen. >> this particular finding would be associated with the mandatory dr that we would have to evaluate and that's wh

. >> commissioner wu. >> if i can ask the project sponsor. commissioner hillis touched on existing tenants. could you let us know how many units you intend to rent if the renovation goes through? >>> sure. so, there would be five rental units. it's currently a six-unit building. we would be standing the top right unit into the town house. the remaining five units would all be rentals. >> okay, thank you. i would also agree i think with the sunset if we're going to allow the addition, that it definitely should be pulled back to where there is no variance required. those are my comments. >> commissioner antonini. >> yeah, i would go along with what commissioner hillis was talking about. we would take dr. we would bring, i guess it's the living room back, although the rooms could be reconfigured to the conforming line. and then also we would try to work with the architect and work with staff about the style to make it kind of blend in a little bit more, even though nobody really see it much from the street. if it fits a little bit more with the

know wu know w>> stephen: welco, everybody. thank you so much.the sequester continues but paul ryan and the president met today for lunch to hammer out a possible deficit deal before the looming continued budget resolution vote on march 27. [laughter] shut up. [laughter] shut up you stupid boring news. [ laughter ] look, i'm not going to lie to you, folks. old steve with a c is tired. it's my last show before a two-week break. i'm barely holding it together. cards on the table i could give two (bleep) about the noise right now. -- about the news right now. no, that's not right. that's way too much 1.5 (bleep) tops. you know what i want to talk about? do you want to know what i want to talk about? i want to talk about the bachelor. [cheers and applause] i love that show. i love that show. i mean i just -- every time i watch it it's just daddy time, you know? i pour myself a glass of chardonnay and i am off to a land of romance. [ laughter ] and, look, don't be a hater because in 16 seasons -- [laughter] -- 16 seasons one guy has gotten married to

. >> commissioner wu. >> i wanted to confirm with staff, for the portion of dolores with the bulb out, there is enough space for a bike and car? is that correct. i am supportive. and there is public transportation. i also live five blocks from here, i feel there is not the congestion problem that i see in other neighborhoods. >> commissioner antonini. >> i am supportive but have issues or concerns that i want to bring up. dolores is a better straight going southbound. for a couple of reasons, there is a left-turn lane for ga rir -- gariro. and i am not saying that people won't use gariro but people will use dolores with more median and see where you are going. dolores was not a wide street and the idea to create a freeway. and they took away the houses on gariro and ruined what was probably a pretty nice street. that's not what is before us. we have to look at this carefully and engineer it. and i know that the department will do that. you may need a longer light off of market turning on dolores. because there probably be some back-ups that occur. as a result of people lining up to ge

researched more and i want it clarified how we do it and why we do it and echo your question commissioner wu in the situation we are discussing and for clarity of the public it should be in general terms stated. because any of these opt inns seem to be not familiar which needs to be clear for all of us. on the other hand, extending the time frames. i would like to hear from somebody what it means to have a hypothetical city. the entitlements we make here are for projects and other uses and 6 or 8 years not built and leaves us with those sites that are not build. and there is a certainly ability for any of us to extend a friendly loan to a friend until we just can't do it anymore. i think i would like somebody to really speak to that sometimes. it's like an economic health between extending entitlements and benefit of change in use and fully built city and that is when we are doing the right thing. but as we are highly theoretical about the projects we have just heard about some already more than 8 years, i'm starting to wonder if you are answer that question in some form or another. >> i thi

. >> i wu literally, when i came in here, pretty much knocking at death's door. >> phillips is currently awaiting trial on a murder charge to which he has pled not guilty. when he was first booked into the jail, the 5'10" inmate weighed 437 pounds. >> i was type 2 diabetic. i was taking insulin twice a day. i couldn't even walk half a block without almost having a heart attack. >> but in the year and a half he has been here, phillips has reduced his weight by almost 1/3. >> i was 437 when i came in i am now 265 pounds. >> phillips has had several prior convictions for burglary and theft. >> these are some previous photos of mr. phillips that we have. 2001, 2003. >> from 200 pound to morbid obesity, his mug shots tell the story of his exponential weight gain. >> my self-esteem out there in the free had plummeted. i stopped giving a care about everything. i was drinking anywhere from, a bottle to a bottle and a half of jack a day. i started eating and eating as a comfort. >> but there was one person at the jail that would have a profound effect on phillip's life. >> hop up here and see whe

. >> elizabeth's pafrn, peter wu partner, also spoke. >> she will live on in people she has known and touched, to life and the time i spent with her, would not be in vain. >> detective elizabeth butler ended her watch on tuesday february 26th, 2013. >> the service ended with an end of watch dispatch. the two officers will be laid to rest in private ceremonies. >> we'll like to share this, butler was a ten-year veteran of the santa cruz police force. >> she was 38 years old and a graduate of uc santa crews. >> 31-year-old butch baker, played with a ten assous investigators. >> he would wear shorts evening on the coldest days. >> he leaves behind daughters and a son. >> former american idol contestant, james durbin sang. he is a santa cruz native. >> durbin sang arms wide open. he knew detective butch baker as a chaperone in school dances when she was growing up. >> those who stayed behind found ways to honor the public servants. >> thousands of people hit the streets of santa cruz for this had morning's police perception. >> i think the community's quite shopped -- precession. as hundr

would i like to pick up on commissioner wu said displacement and creating a city setting that is more retaining and friendly for families that were required a response to looking at it more comprehensive for me and understanding of the sufficient number of schools, and the children and education at large, community facilities, parks and open space and everything which comes when you have a diverse population, which is not just the tech people moving in and out and including those stages, but those people ultimately become the cohesive future of the population of the city. >> thank you, commissioners. i appreciate that. i would be happy to continue this dialogue in other forums. i will say a couple of things about, i don't think that there is anybody in here that will question the need for mta to get better. um, i and we are looking close with them, and i am trying to figure that out, i will say that with respect to other parts of the need to have amenities grow with plans, with the development, we are, i mean, as part of the reason for doing these plans, the transit center plan adds 1